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Handling errors in TypeScript

Arus answered on May 3, 2022 Popularity 8/10 Helpfulness 2/10

answer Handling errors in TypeScript

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Handling errors in TypeScript

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type ErrorWithMessage = {
  message: string
}

function isErrorWithMessage(error: unknown): error is ErrorWithMessage {
  return (
    typeof error === 'object' &&
    error !== null &&
    'message' in error &&
    typeof (error as Record<string, unknown>).message === 'string'
  )
}

function toErrorWithMessage(maybeError: unknown): ErrorWithMessage {
  if (isErrorWithMessage(maybeError)) return maybeError

  try {
    return new Error(JSON.stringify(maybeError))
  } catch {
    // fallback in case there's an error stringifying the maybeError
    // like with circular references for example.
    return new Error(String(maybeError))
  }
}

function getErrorMessage(error: unknown) {
  return toErrorWithMessage(error).message
}

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Arus

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// doc: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-0/#unknown-on-catch
try {  /* ... */ }
catch (e: unknown) { // <-- note `e` has explicit `unknown` type
    e.message // errors
    if (typeof e === "string") {
        e.toUpperCase() // works, `e` narrowed to string
    } else if (e instanceof Error) {
        e.message // works, `e` narrowed to Error
    }
    // ... handle other error types 
}


// Typescript 4.4 added the ability to make unknown the default on catch variables using the useUnknownInCatchVariables  flag.

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Contributed on May 03 2022

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